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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consistent Superiority. The changes that Chance made on Intrepid-shorter keel, rounder bow, fuller afterbody -have obviously made the white-hulled sloop swifter than ever. What is astonishing is that she may actually be a faster boat than Stephens' brand-new Valiant. Her first two races around the triangular 24.3-mile course set the pattern for the trials. With Picker at the helm, Intrepid handily defeated the trial horse Weatherly by 3 min. 55 sec., and then trounced Heritage by the embarrassing margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Intrepid Indeed | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...process, he determined to revenge himself on Harvard by donating a grotesquely hideous building, which is now known as the Lampoon Castle (and always has been, since Hearst was a member of the Lampoon in his undergraduate days). The building is for some odd reason triangular in shape, and has five street addresses (count em): 29 Plympton St., 44 Bow St., 57 Mt. Auburn St., 1 Holyoke Court, and Zero Freedom Square). The tenants of this building put out a magazine several times a year, which brings us to our next point...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

Because even the Flatiron was largely determined by business considerations. It barely displays the tripartite divisions, and very clearly the building's owners, the Fuller Construction Company, wanted to squeeze as much business space as possible from the small triangular lot they owned...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: No Country for Old Men | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Fishhook forces sealed off a triangular area of some 50-square miles. With any luck, they may find most of the 7th North Vietnamese Division trapped inside, and perhaps the 5th Viet Cong Division as well. But the main objective is the so-called Central Office for South Viet Nam, the field office from which Hanoi runs its political and military operations in the southern half of South Viet Nam. COSVN has a staff of 2,300 who man an elaborate series of bureaucratic "sections." Yet it is no Pentagon; to confound allied intelligence, its staff moves regularly from bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sanitizing the Sanctuaries | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Last year Harvard routed Columbia in a dual meet and edged M. I. T. in a triangular meet in its first two races. In their first two outings this spring the Crimson lights have smashed Columbia and Rutgers in one race and Dartmouth and M. I. T. in another...

Author: By J. J. Hines, | Title: Light Crew Defends Haines Cup Crown Against Weak Navy Oarsmen on Charles | 4/25/1970 | See Source »

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